Sentence examples for for the clumsy from inspiring English sources

Harry Reid, the majority leader, may be to blame for the clumsy handling of the Senate.

Amatzia Baram faulted Bremer for the clumsy manner of the March crackdown on Moqtada, but not for the effort itself.

In that picture she was always sorry for the clumsy pins, and the uneven parting in her hair.

I began the task as a true professional, searching for eloquent and fluent Spanish for the clumsy and stilted English.

Macdonald usefully did the same for the clumsy prose style of the New English Bible, but there he was attacking a committee.

Setting up for supper with the television, I swung an Alvar Aalto nesting table past it (only the best for the clumsy), hit it on the chin, and over it went in an elegant back dive, like an acrobatic swan.

For the clumsiest among us, the new look probably isn't worth the potential tradeoff.

I usually search for a flaw of mine I can use for comedy, and then I try to find a way to make it lovable – for example, the clumsy Travelling Matt character in Fraggle Rock came out of wanting to preserve my dignity and not be shamed in front of people.

Having spent time with him in Moscow and London, I would venture that there is something genuine in his retreat from fashionable society, in his search for silence amid the clumsy clamor of contemporary life.

(Those of a symbolic bent can take this as a metaphor for female audiences misunderstanding the clumsy good intentions of these films).

Apart from American taxation, other notable incidents during the Grenville administration included the prosecution of John Wilkes for seditious libel and the clumsy handling of the Regency Act of 1765 that had been introduced as a result of a severe illness the king had suffered.